Digital Tracing and Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010 amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

IF 0.3 4区社会学 Q4 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES

Asian Journal of Wto & International Health Law and Policy Pub Date : 2021-07-28 DOI:10.33093/ajlp.2021.3

O. Leng, Rossanne Gale Vergara, Shereen Khan

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Abstract

Digital tracing is a proven effective means for the Malaysian government to trace and control the spread of COVID-19. However, the process of tracing and tracking in order to manage the spread of the pandemic have in many ways compromised personal information to third party applications. Malaysia is not the only country that uses digital tracing to manage the spread of the pandemic. Various countries have chosen different methods for digital contact tracing to manage the spread of COVID-19 and some are less respectful of privacy than others. This paper analyses Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) and its effectiveness in protecting personal data during the pandemic as Malaysians continue to utilise the contact tracing mobile applications such as MySejahtera and SELangkah. The researchers applied doctrinal research method and analysed the current Malaysian legislation on data protection. It should be noted that the PDPA does not apply in the case of government collection and would not require federal and state agencies to be transparent in their data management.

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2019冠状病毒病大流行期间的数字追踪和马来西亚2010年个人数据保护法

数字追踪是马来西亚政府追踪和控制新冠病毒传播的有效手段。然而，为管理大流行病的传播而进行的追踪和追踪过程在许多方面使个人信息泄露给了第三方应用程序。马来西亚并不是唯一一个使用数字追踪来管理大流行传播的国家。各国选择了不同的数字接触者追踪方法来管理COVID-19的传播，有些国家比其他国家更不尊重隐私。本文分析了马来西亚2010年个人数据保护法(PDPA)及其在大流行期间保护个人数据的有效性，因为马来西亚人继续使用MySejahtera和SELangkah等接触者追踪移动应用程序。研究人员运用理论研究方法，对马来西亚现行的数据保护立法进行了分析。值得注意的是，PDPA并不适用于政府收集数据的情况，也不要求联邦和州机构在数据管理方面保持透明。

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Asian Journal of Wto & International Health Law and Policy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： After Taiwan became the 144th Member of the WTO on January 1 2002 and recognizing the importance of WTO research, the WTO Research Center was established at the NTU College of Law in January, 2003 in order to conduct the research on WTO matters more efficiently. The WTO Research Center was transformed into the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy (hereinafter ACWH or the Center) in December, 2005 to reflect the broad research scope of the Center. The original focus of the center was only on international trade law. Now it covers three major fields of research and training interests, namely international economic law (mainly WTO and investment), international health law (including the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the International Health Regulations), and international arbitration (including commercial and investor-State arbitrations). ACWH is designed to closely monitor the development of WTO rules, conduct in-depth research on the effect of the WTO rules on Taiwan’s economy, and put forth policy proposals.